I ALWAYS loose.... I need advice and have MANY questions heh!

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
With Independent setting of 8 and 9... I have seen where I'm always taking lots more provinces then the AI opponents. The computer opponents seem to have more problems conquering them.

Another aspect of high Indy settings is that it forces an element of Darwinism into the AI: Instead of the AI expending most of its resources in pointless warfare with each other, only the strongest AIs survive, and the weak perish. With low indy settings, you have maybe 12 of the 17 players bickering and squabbling amongst themselves in massive wastes of resources. With 9, you'll see maybe 6 of them grow to power, the rest strangled by the independents and/or overcome by the remaining 6. Those remaining 6 will put up a much better fight.